EGYPT INDEPENDENT

In a rare media appearance with journalist Essad Younis, First Lady Entissar al-Sisi presented a collection of rare photos of Sisi’s family,...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The low-cost carrier FlyDubai began regular flights to Tel Aviv on Thursday, the latest sign of the norma...

DORI, Burkina Faso (AP) — Balkissa Barro’s been waiting for months to go back to school, but now that she has, the 10-year-old fears classes...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lawmakers in Taiwan got into a fist fight and threw pig guts at each other Friday over a soon-to-be enacted policy...

SIRTE, Libya/TUNIS (Reuters) – In Libya’s frontline city of Sirte, parts of which still lie in ruins, the commission set up to oversee warri...

Local authorities in Cairo have called on shopkeepers in downtown to remove illegal banners outside of their shops, as part of a plan to res...

The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy is currently working on water desalination projects that employ renewable energy, especiall...

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients are driving a surge in new cases in South Korea, frustrating efforts to control trans...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A British-Australian academic who was freed from Iranian jail on Thursday was detained in 2018 on espionage charges after...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court sentenced hundreds of military and civilian personnel at an air base to life prison sentences Thursday...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — People continued to flee the capital of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region in fear of an imminent assault after Prime...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Wednesday warned travel companies in Egypt against conducting trips to Ethiopia due its...

The Environment Ministry’s Environmental Affairs Agency announced that under a set of new requirements, some diving activity may resume for...

Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) and the UN Women Egypt Country Office lit up in orange the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx on...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Civil servants in Greece have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike expected to disrupt public transport and ser...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to tighten sanctions on Tehran during its final months in power, the top US envoy on I...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has cost the seaside territory as much as US$16.7 billion in economic losse...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A leading Saudi women’s rights activist who’s been imprisoned for two and a half years and drawn attenti...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Vaccinations against COVID-19 in Africa might not start until the second quarter of next year, the continent’s top p...

Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways ahead of Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire, disr...

CAIRO (AP) — Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and leader of the country’s largest political party, has di...

Cairo Opera House will kick off the holiday season by holding two concerts featuring Christmas music accompanied by pianist Greg Martin at 8...

The Egyptian Meteorological Authority has predicted more rain and winds across Egypt throughout the weekend, specifically in the Nile Delta...

The Israeli government’s “Israel Speaks Arabic” Facebook page published, on Wednesday, a video clip of a diplomat at the Israeli Foreign Min...